{"id":10213,"date":"2008-12-17T19:12:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T19:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/south_carolina_politics_at_its_worst_robert_ford_advocates_bringing_back_vi\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T19:12:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T19:12:28","slug":"south_carolina_politics_at_its_worst_robert_ford_advocates_bringing_back_vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10213","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Politics at its Worst: Robert Ford Advocates Bringing Back Video Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Washington looks for ways to boost the nation&#8217;s struggling economy, South Carolina has before it a simple solution to help this state overcome its economic troubles.<\/p>\n<p>The General Assembly and state agencies are struggling to balance the state&#8217;s budget. Furloughs and across-the-board spending cuts could go even deeper. But we don&#8217;t have to take such drastic measures that harm working-class people when we have a workable economic bailout plan that could unleash new revenue and put people back to work.<\/p>\n<p>New money could come from an old industry \u201d\u201d video poker.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.net\/news\/2008\/dec\/12\/video_poker_simple_solution_states_budge64777\">It is hard to put into words how strongly I disgree with this article, which advocates a practice which some have called visual crack cocaine because of its addictive nature.  And you know it hits the poor disproportionally hard.  Read it all in any case<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Washington looks for ways to boost the nation&#8217;s struggling economy, South Carolina has before it a simple solution to help this state overcome its economic troubles. The General Assembly and state agencies are struggling to balance the state&#8217;s budget.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10213\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,149,114,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-economy","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}